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Even if it is slight, manual winding causes wear.
While most automatic watches can be manually wound, my understanding is that their manual winding mechanisms generally are less robust than the winding mechanisms of non-automatic watches. Also, one of the main reasons to own an automatic watch is that daily winding causes wear to the crown gasket, potentially compromising water resistance. It's probably not a big deal, but there certainly is at least some argument against regularly manually winding an automatic.
Do you manually wind automatic watches?
I currently have two automatic watches and every morning I use to wind both of them: just a few turns of the crown for the watch I want to wear all day long while I make the other one fully wound. It's many years I got this practice and "feeding" my watch...
Useless if you wear them regularly, but no danger, here.
As you can't "overwind " a modern automatic watch. Best, Nicolas
Even if it is slight, manual winding causes wear.
While most automatic watches can be manually wound, my understanding is that their manual winding mechanisms generally are less robust than the winding mechanisms of non-automatic watches. Also, one of the main reasons to own an automatic watch is that da...
Only when I know I'm not going to wear it for a few days...
and the winder is already occupied.
I do ...
... since I wear my watches in rotation and don't think keeping automatics on the winder all the time causes less wear then manually winding them a bit when I take them out of the box every week or two. I am now keeping two watches on the winder which are...
Maybe once a week...
I have an Omega Seamaster Pro chronometer with the ETA2892A2/Omega 1120 movement, and I wind it up manually once a week or whenever it needs adjusting or date adjusted, but it's very accurate and I wear it everyday, so it doesn't need to be manually wound...
Yup always
I manually wind whatever watch I'm wearing in the morning even if it's an automatic. It has become a morning ritual for me. If it's introduces more wear and tear to the watch, I really don't care because I get enjoyment manually winding it. - AT
Some of them, daily...
...when I am wearing them. There are some automatics that I just can't seem to keep wound in normal life. The result is after a couple of days they begin to run erratically and by Thursday morning they stop. Usually I try to move on from these watches but...
Only when it stops and I need to get them running
I used to but got lazy. The watches I have that need to be running, i.e. those with a date, so that I don't have to keep setting the dates when it stops, I keep on a winder. For those that are time only, I wind when I want to wear them. I haven't noticed ...
I wind my automatic watches by...
... shaking them in a circular motion... I do that when I'm not going to wear the automatic watch for a few days.